Gilded Flicker
Photo: Glenn Seplak from Tucson, Arizona · CC BY 2.0

Woodpeckers

Gilded Flicker

Colaptes chrysoides

LCLeast Concern
Family
Woodpeckers (Picidae)
Order
Piciformes

Overview

The gilded flicker (Colaptes chrysoides) is a large woodpecker (mean length of 29 cm (11 in)) of the Sonoran, Yuma, and eastern Colorado Desert regions of the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, including all of the Baja California peninsula except the extreme northwestern region. Yellow underwings distinguish the gilded flicker from the northern flicker (Colaptes auratus) found within the same region, which has red underwings.

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Last updated September 29, 2026.